1st Edition

Concise Encyclopedia of Mexico

By Michael Werner Copyright 2001
    1016 Pages
    by Routledge

    Concise Encyclopedia of Mexico includes approximately 250 articles on the people and topics most relevant to students seeking information about Mexico. Although the Concise version is a unique single-volume source of information on the entire sweep of Mexican history-pre-colonial, colonial, and moderns-it will emphasize events that affecting Mexico today, event students most need to understand.

    A: A; African Mexicans; Agustín I (Emperor of Mexico); Alamán, Lucas 1792–1853; Architecture; Architecture: Colonial; Architecture: Nineteenth Century; Architecture: Twentieth Century; Ayutla, Revolution of; Aztecs; Azuela, Mariano 1873–1952; B: B; Borders; Bullfighting; C: C; Calderón de la Barca, Fanny 1804–82; Calles, Plutarco Elías 1877–1945; Campobello, Nellie 1900–; Cantinflas; Cárdenas, Cuauhtémoc 1934–; Cárdenas, Lázaro 1895–1970; Carranza, Venustiano 1859–1920; Castellanos, Rosario 1925–1974; Caste War of Yucatán; Catholic Church; Catholic Church: Colonial Structure, Divisions, and Hierarchy; Catholic Church: Hapsburg New Spain; Catholic Church: Bourbon New Spain; Catholic Church: 1821–1910; Catholic Church: 1910–96; Cedillo, Saturnino 1890–1939; Chiapas Zapatista Rebellion; Conquest; Conquest: Spanish Background; Conquest: Central Mexico; Conquest: Yucatán; Conquest: Northern Mexico; Conquest: Demographic Impact; Conquest: Ecological Impact; Conquistadors; Conservatism; Constitution of 1917; Corridos; Cortés, Fernando (Hernán) 1484 or 1485–1547; Cristero Rebellion; Cruz, Sor Juana Inés de la 1651–95; Cuisine; D: D; Day of the Dead; De la Huerta, Adolfo 1881–1955; De Las Casas, Bartolomé; Díaz, Porfirio 1830–1915; Díaz, Porfirio: Biography; Díaz, Porfirio: Interpretive Discussion; Díaz del Castillo, Bernal c.1495–1584; Doña Marina; Drug Trade; E: E; Earthquake of 1985; Ecology; Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional; Elías Calles, Plutarco; Ezln; F: F; Family and Kinship; Family and Kinship: Hapsburg Colonial Period; Family and Kinship: Bourbon Colonial Period and Nineteenth Century; Family and Kinship: Twentieth Century; Fernández, Manuel Félix; Foreign Policy; Foreign Policy: 1821–76; Foreign Policy: 1876–1910; Foreign Policy: 1910–46; Foreign Policy: 1946–96; French Intervention; Fuentes, Carlos 1928–; G: G; Gálvez, José de 1720–87; Gatt; Gender; Gender: Overview; Gender: Gender and Mexican Spanish; General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT); Great Depression; Guadalupanismo; Guadalupe Hidalgo, Treaty of; Guerrero, Vicente 1782–1831; H: H; Hapsburg, Ferdinand Maximilian von; Hidalgo Revolt; Hidalgo y Costilla, Miguel 1753–1811; Huerta, Victoriano 1854–1916; Human Rights; I: I; Independence Wars; Industrial Labor; Industrial Labor: 1876–1910; Industrial Labor: 1910–40; Industrial Labor: 1940–96; Industry and Industrialization; Inquisition; Iturbide, Agustín de 1783–1824; J: J; Juárez, Benito 1806–72; K: K; Kahlo, Frida 1907–54; Kinship; L: L; Las Casas, Bartolomé de 1484–1566; Lerdo de Tejada, Sebastián 1827–89; Liberalism; Limantour, José Yves 1854–1935; Literature and National Identity, 1910–96; Lombardo Toledano, Vicente 1894–1968; López de Santa Anna, Antonio; M: M; Madero, Francisco I. 1873–1913; Maize; La Malinche and Malinchismo; Maquiladoras; Marina, Doña; Massacre of Tlatelolco; Maximilian (Ferdinand Maximilian von Hapsburg) 1832–67; Mesoamerica; Mesoamerica: Introduction; Mesoamerica: Maya; Mesoamerica: Mexica; Mesoamerica: Monte Albán; Mesoamerica: Olmec; Mesoamerica: Teotihuacan; Mesoamerica: Toltec; Mesoamerica: Veracruz, Classic and Postclassic; Mesoamerica: Agriculture and Ecology; Mesoamerica: Calendrics; Mesoamerica: Population; Mesoamerica: Religion; Mesoamerica: Warfare; Mesoamerica: Writing; Mestizaje; Mexica; Mexican American Communities; Mexican-American War; Mexican Revolution; Mexican Revolution: Causes; Mexican Revolution: October 1910–February 1913; Mexican Revolution: February 1913–October 1915; Mexican Revolution: October 1915–May 1917; Mexican Revolution: May 1917–December 1920; Mexican Spanish; Migration to the United States; Migration to the United States: 1876–1940; Migration to the United States: 1940–96; Military; Military: Bourbon New Spain; Military: 1821–1914; Military: 1914–96; Mining: Colonial; Missions; Modernism; Mora, José María Luís 1794–1850; Morelos, José María 1765–1815; Moreno Reyes, Mario (Cantinflas) 1913–93; Morones, Luis Napoleón 1890–1964; Motion Pictures; Motion Pictures: 1896–1930; Motion Pictures: 1930–60; Motion Pictures: 1960–96; Music; Music: Mesoamerica through Seventeenth Century; Music: Eighteenth Century; Music: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; N: N; Nafta; Nahua Rulers, Pre-Hispanic; Nationalism; North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA); O: O; Obregón, Álvaro 1880–1928; Orozco, José Clemente 1883–1949; Orozco Vázquez, Pascual, Jr. 1882–1915; P: P; Partido de Acción Nacional (PAN); Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD); Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI); Paz, Octavio 1914–; Peso Crisis of 1994; Petroleum; Petroleum: Pre-1938; Petroleum: 1938–96; Photography; Politics and Government; Politics and Government: Hapsburg New Spain; Politics and Government: Bourbon New Spain; Politics and Government: 1821–76; Politics and Government: 1876–1910; Politics and Government: 1910–46; Politics and Government: 1946–96; Poniatowska, Elena 1933–; Popular Catholicism; Popular Liberalism; Prd; Pri; Prints; Protestantism; Q: Q; Quetzalcoatl; R: R; Radio; Railroads; Reform Laws; Reform Wars; Revolution, Mexican; Revolution of Ayutla; Reyes, Bernardo 1850–1913; Rivera, Diego 1886–1957; Ruiz García, Samuel 1924–; Rulfo, Juan 1918–86; Rural Economy and Society; Rural Economy and Society: Colonial; Rural Economy and Society: 1821–1910; Resistance and Rebellion; Rural Economy and Society: 1910–40; Rural Economy and Society: 1940–96, Land-Labor Regimes; Rural Economy and Society: 1940–96, Resistance and Rebellion; S: S; Sahagún, Bernardino de c. 1499–1590; Salinas de Gortari, Carlos 1948–; Santa Anna, Antonio López de 1794–1876; Science; Sexuality; Siqueiros, David Alfaro 1896–1974; Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz; Spanish Language in Mexico; Sports; Student Movement of 1968; T: T; Telenovelas; Television; Teotihuacan; Terrazas Fuentes, Luis 1829–1923; Texan Secession; Three Years War; Tlatelolco, Massacre of; Toltec; Tourism; Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo; Triple Alliance; U: U; Urbanism and Urbanization; U.S.-Mexican Border; U.S.-Mexican Border: 1821–1910; U.S.-Mexican Border: 1910–96; U.S.-Mexican Border: Border Urbanism; U.S.-Mexican War; V: V; Vasconcelos, José 1882–1959; Velázquez Sánchez, Fidel 1900–97; Veracruz, Classic and Postclassic Mesoamerican; Victoria, Guadalupe 1785–1843; Villa, Francisco (Pancho) 1878–1923; Virgin of Guadalupe and Guadalupanismo; Visual Arts; Visual Arts: Mesoamerica; Visual Arts: Sixteenth Century; Visual Arts: Seventeenth Century; Visual Arts: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Academic Art; Visual Arts: 1910–37, The Revolutionary Tradition; Visual Arts: 1920–45, Art outside the Revolutionary Tradition; Visual Arts: 1945–96; W: W; Wars of Independence; Wars of Reform (Three Years War); Women's Status and Occupation; Women's Status and Occupation: Mesoamerica; Women's Status and Occupation: Indian Women in New Spain; Women's Status and Occupation: Spanish Women in New Spain; Women's Status and Occupation: 1821–1910; Women's Status and Occupation: 1910–96; World Trade Organization; Z: Z; Zapata, Emiliano 1879–1919; Zapatista Rebellion in Chiapas; Zapotecs, Mesoamerican; Zedillo Ponce de León, Ernesto 1951–

    Biography

    Michael Werner